Since the civilizing process began most of us came to breathe by decree and not in the grace of our mothers
Swidden
and some who don the thread of peasantry
and all presume to claim false fatherhood
Seventh Assessment Report
It’s a slow rot—
A decay with many geneses.
There are so many pinpricks
where life seeps
out
Dreaming of Ian McShane
My guide was Ian McShane. One of those actors you don’t know about for a long time and then one day you’d always known him. Ubiquitous, transcending time, like Forest Whitaker.